00                       HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 22                                                                     
01 Requesting the United States Congress to propose an amendment to the Constitution of                                    
02 the United States to set a limit on the number of terms that a person may be elected as a                               
03 member of the United States House of Representatives and as a member of the United                                      
04 States Senate; and requesting the United States Congress to call for a constitutional                                   
05 convention of the states to propose a single amendment to the Constitution of the United                                
06 States to set a limit on the number of terms that a person may be elected as a member of                                
07 the United States House of Representatives and as a member of the United States                                         
08 Senate.                                                                                                                 
09 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
10       WHEREAS art. V, Constitution of the United States, provides the states with the                                 
11 authority to call a constitutional convention for the purpose of proposing an amendment to the                          
12 Constitution of the United States on application by at least two-thirds of the states; and                              
13       WHEREAS that power provides the states with the leverage needed to force the                                    
14 United States Congress to act when the United States Congress otherwise does not want to;                               
01 and                                                                                                                     
02       WHEREAS the citizens of this state and 22 other states, having passed statutes or                               
03 state constitutional amendments placing term limits on members of the United States                                     
04 Congress, were overruled by the United States Supreme Court; and                                                        
05       WHEREAS the citizens of this state are overwhelmingly supportive of placing term                                
06 limits on members of the United States Congress; and                                                                    
07       WHEREAS the Alaska State Legislature, a body of citizen legislators, desires to                                 
08 restore rotation in office for members serving in the United States Congress;                                           
09       BE IT RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature joins other states in instructing                            
10 the United States Congress to draft an amendment on term limits and to send the amendment                               
11 to the states for ratification, failing which the states will act independently; and be it                              
12 FURTHER RESOLVED by the Alaska State Legislature that, under art. V,                                                  
13 Constitution of the United States, the Alaska State Legislature formally applies to the United                          
14 States Congress to call a convention limited to proposing an amendment to the United States                             
15 Constitution to set a limit on the number of terms a person may be elected as a member of the                           
16 United States House of Representatives and as a member of the United States Senate; and be                              
17 it                                                                                                                      
18 FURTHER RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature requests that this                                                 
19 application be considered as covering the same subject matter as the applications from other                            
20 states to the United States Congress to call a convention to set a limit on the number of terms                         
21 that a person may be elected to the United States House of Representatives and the United                               
22 States Senate; and be it                                                                                                
23 FURTHER RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature requests that this                                                 
24 application be aggregated with the applications of other states for the purpose of attaining the                        
25 two-thirds of the states necessary to require the United States Congress to call a limited                              
26 convention for the purpose of setting term limits on the members of the United States                                   
27 Congress, but that this application not be aggregated with any other application on any other                           
28 subject; and be it                                                                                                      
29 FURTHER RESOLVED that this resolution constitutes a continuing application in                                         
30 accordance with art. V, Constitution of the United States, until the legislatures of at least two-                      
31 thirds of the states have made applications on the same subject.                                                        
01 COPIES of this resolution shall be sent to the Honorable JD Vance, Vice President of                                  
02 the United States and President of the U.S. Senate; the Honorable Mike Johnson, Speaker of                              
03 the U.S. House of Representatives; the Honorable Jackie Barber, Secretary of the U.S. Senate;                           
04 the Honorable Kevin McCumber, Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives; the Honorable                                 
05 Jim Jordan, Chair of the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary; the Honorable Lisa                                      
06 Murkowski and the Honorable Dan Sullivan, U.S. Senators, and the Honorable Nicholas                                     
07 Begich, U.S. Representative, members of the Alaska delegation in Congress; and the                                      
08 presiding officers of the legislatures of each of the other 49 states.